Obinice

Ka is a wheel

Inexorably? …Really? It can’t be turned off?

Religious extremists, you say?

Yes, we should all avoid discussion with humans at all costs, and of course already know everything anyway.

Imagine not knowing something and asking a human for more information? Ew

Sounds like it’s time to bring the U.S some Freedom! 😎🪖🕊️

If only my TV had a Jellyfin app, I could switch, but alas it doesn’t. Got to use Plex if I want to watch stuff from any home streaming thingy. That said, it’s free to do that, at least.

I just don’t have the money or time to buy an external box and fiddle with it to get it running these days either, otherwise I’d build a modern version of the XBMC server I used to have in days gone by :-(

Indeed.

Everyone and their mums is packin round here

Aren’t Nike kinda known these days for being cheaply made crap that just tries to lure in people who care more about looking cool than having truly functional shoes for sports, etc?

Posers, as the saying goes.

It’s not something I’m into though so maybe I’m a bit wrong!

lol, this was on when I was growing up and I, along with a great many of my peers, were rolling with undiagnosed ADHD, autism, depression, etc, because the teachers and adults around us didn’t know shit about mental health, and didn’t help any of us.

Have we reached the point now for my generation that younger people assume those times were better, where people were magically wiser etc, and where older people have rose tinted glasses and start telling the youth how much more mentally healthy everyone was, etc?

People were people then just like they are now. People had mental health problems then just like they do now. It wasn’t heaven on Earth, it was just a few decades ago, that’s all.

Yeah, as a little kid I hated seeing this on TV, it felt really creepy and disgusting. I still don’t like it :-(

When you think about it, that’s kinda exactly what it is. Which is very cool :-D

Just a big random boulder in space amongst a whole solar system of random boulders, taken with a light for illumination because it’s dark, yo

You stay far, FAR away from that shit, is what you do.

Scanning people’s entire history for political leanings, etc? That’s some deeply dystopian stuff right there.

It’s easy to forget that these sorts of communities are dictatorships with only as much transparency as the owner wants to share. Usually they’re benevolent dictators, so we don’t think about it too much. But they can change in a heartbeat - and we don’t ever really know what they’re really thinking, or doing behind the scenes.

When the mask slips and they reveal this sort of thing, thinking we’ll just accept it and keep living under their rule, it’s time to read the red flags and GET OUT.

Hopefully someone compiles a list of places that do this stuff, so we can avoid them like the plague <3

An absolute national treasure and treasure to his species.

Go watch his early documentary series, they’re fantastic.

What?

Your comment’s got some unreadable corrupted text there.

especially if it’s using sim/esim card. Those mobile carriers can literally do whatever the fuck they want to your phone and there’s nothing you can do about it.

Wow that’s wild, how does my SIM card allow my carrier to do whatever they want to my phone?

On the face of it, that sounds like a gigantic breach of privacy. Can they look at my photos, capture my screen, read my stored app data, intercept outbound Internet traffic before it’s encrypted, etc? That’s wild.

Not to mention that I bought my phone separately, so it’s got nothing to do with them. As one might imagine, I only added a SIM in order to receive traditional telephone calls, it’s not otherwise useful to me.

That’s not the case at all. For ads, perhaps, but in application purchases? Many games (especially free to play games, of which there are many excellent ones) have purchases you can make in the game.

Helldivers 2 is an excellent game, and that has DLC packs and individual items you can purchase in game. So does World of Tanks (which is also free to play).

Even some perfectly normal applications have that tag, because there’s a shareware version (maybe with a launch nag “Ad”) and the full paid version (which may only cost a few quid), that you can upgrade to from within the free version. It still counts, even if it’s just a one time thing.

There are many scummy practices some game/application makers employ using ads or in-app purchases, but many don’t, and both types have that sort of label applied.

Honestly, I see that label applied to basically everything these days, so I just ignore it and judge the application based on the nuance of how their monetisation is presented.

this political system

You’ve not mentioned what continent you’re on, let alone what country, it’s hard to know if we share a similar experience or not.

I don’t have any experience with Namibia’s political system, nor Chinas, though I do have a bit more touchstone knowledge of a few European systems here and there.

Anyway to answer your original question, no, I don’t tire of trying to help my fellow humans improve our overall living situation. That’s our duty as good, caring people, right?

I also don’t guess at solutions. I’m not very smart, but I still believe in using the scientific method over guessing.

You seem like an empathetic, mindful, caring person. Those are fantastic traits :-)

Gotta love idiots that cross the road while the rest of us are waiting for the traffic lights to turn red.

No point gambling your life to save an extra 8 seconds. One day they won’t be so lucky. But some people are just stupid.